Giza Pyramids, Nile Cruise and Red Sea Holiday

Egypt Classic Tours

Take the chance and visit Egypt for 12 days and 11 nights. This tour includes visits to the main tourist attractions in Cairo and Giza. Then embark a Nile Cruise Ship before spending a nice holiday in Hurghada at the Red Sea.

Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrival Cairo
Upon arrival at Cairo International Airport, you will be met by our representative who will assist you through formalities. Then you will be transferred in an A/C van to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Welcome Drink

Day 2: Pyramids and / Sakkara
After breakfast, follow your private tour guide to explore Giza Plateau where you will see the great Pyramids of Giza, the only surviving of the ancient seven wonders of the ancient world. Move on to visit the pyramids of Chephren and Mykerinos. Then continue across the plateau where you can have a photo of the three pyramids rising from the sands, with the Cairo skyline in the background. Then move on to the Sphinx that is considered the enigmatic symbol of Egypt for thousands of years. There is also an additional visit to the Solar Boat Museum housing the remarkably well preserved funerary boat of Khufu.
Lunch will be served at a good quality local restaurant (vegetarian food available on request).
The tour will be continued by visiting Memphis, the oldest capital in ancient Egypt. Then proceed to Sakkara where you will find many pyramids, tombs, and mastabas including the Step Pyramid of King Djoser that was built by Imhotep, the genius architect who was later deified.

You can have an optional visit to the Sound & light show at the Pyramids area. Overnight in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 3: Cairo Sightseeing / Train to Aswan
After breakfast at the hotel, you will start your tour to visit the Egyptian Museum located in famous Tahrir Square housing a magnificent collection of Pharaonic antiquities, especially the golden treasures of Tut Ankh Amun such as his mask and sarcophagus.
The museum will be followed by going to Coptic Cairo “Old Cairo Zone” to visit the the Church of Abu Serga, Moallaqa Church (Hanging Church) and Ben Ezra Synagogue, the oldest Jewish synagogue in Egypt. Lunch will be served at a local restaurant (vegetarian food available on request). At night transfer to Giza train station to catch your sleeper train to Aswan. Dinner and Overnight inside your compartment at the Sleeper train.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 4: Arrival Aswan
In the morning, you will arrive at Aswan, and then move on to check-in at your hotel. You will enjoy some free time relaxing or you can visit the Souk of Aswan. You can also choose an optional tour to Abu Simbel temples (dating back to the 13th century BC and they are two temples for Ramesses II and his wife, Nefertari, carved out of the mountainside). Overnight in Aswan.
Meals: Breakfast

Day 5: Aswan Sightseeing
After breakfast at your hotel in Aswan, you will be transferred to embark your Nile River Cruise. Before lunch, you will visit the High Dam that has had a significant effect on the economy and culture of Egypt.
Then move on to Philae Temple, dedicated to goddesses Isis and Hathor. Philae, and was dismantled and relocated to nearby Agilkia Island as part of the UNESCO Nubia Campaign project. Overnight in Aswan.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 6: Kom Ombo / Edfu
After breakfast on board, arrive at Kom Omabo where you will visit Kom Ombo Temple dedicated the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon headed god Haeroris, and dating to the Ptolemies who built it on a high dune overlooking the Nile.
Then sail to Edfu where you will visit the Temple of Edfu, the most preserved Greco-Roman temple all over Egypt and on its walls portrayed a “Play” shows the overcome of Horus over the devil god Seth. Lunch will be served on board. Then sail to Esna, and lunch will be served on board. Dinner and overnight on board your Nile Cruise.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7: Luxor West Bank
After breakfast on board, you will reach Luxor where you will visit the West Bank of Luxor including the Valley of the Kings, the royal cemetery for 62 Pharaohs dug into the limestone rocks including the tomb of the boy King Tut’s tomb.
Then proceed to Hatshepsut Temple at El-Deir El-Bahary. Hatshepsut is the longest reigned female pharaoh over Egypt for almost 22 years. Then visit to the colossi of Memnon; the only remains of a complete mortuary temple. Lunch and dinner will be served on board, and then overnight on board your Nile Cruise.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 8: Luxor East Bank / Hurghada
Disemark from the Nile Cruise after having breakfast, then start your tour visiting the impressive Karnak, a complex of temples built in different reigns and famous for the Hypostyle Hall with its 134 gigantic columns and the Obelisks of Queen Hatshepsut and Tutomosis I.
Then move on to the impressive Luxor Temple whose construction started by Amenhotep III, while the entrance was built by Ramses II.
In the afternoon, transfer to Hurghada on the Red Sea in a 03 hour and half drive. Overnight in Hurghada.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Day 9: Hurghada Vacation
Have breakfast at the hotel in Hurghada. Then enjoy a day at leisure in Hurghada and enjoy many activities such as swimming, sailing, windsurfing, deep-sea fishing, diving, snorkeling, and different water sports as well as some other optional tours. Overnight in Hurghada.
Meals: Breakfast

Day 10: Hurghada Vacation
Breakfast at your hotel in Hurghada, and then enjoy a day at leisure in Hurghada and enjoy the different water sports as well as some other optional tours. Overnight in Hurghada
Meals: Breakfast

Day 11: Hurghada – Cairo (398 km)
After breakfast at your hotel in Hurghada, you will be transferred to the bus station where you take the first class coach to Cairo in about 6-hour drive.
Upon arrival at Cairo, transfer to your hotel in Cairo and overnight stay in your hotel Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast

Day 12: Cairo – Fly Back Home
Breakfast will be served at your hotel in Cairo. Then transfer you to Cairo International Airport for your final departure.
Meals: Breakfast

Included:
• Meet and greet service by our representatives at airports.
• Assistance of our guest relations during your stay.
• All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle.
• Transfer from Luxor to Hurghada by private air-conditioned vehicle.
• Transfer from Hurghada to Cairo by F/C air-conditioned coach.
• Accommodation for 3 nights in Cairo including bed & breakfast.
• Accommodation for 1 night on sleeper train on half board.
• Accommodation for 1 night in Aswan including bed & breakfast.
• Accommodation for 3 nights on 05-star superior cruise on full board.
• Accommodation for 3 nights in Hurghada including daily breakfast.
• English speaking Egyptologist tour guide.
• All sightseeing tours on the cruise sharing another group.
• All sightseeing tours in Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan as mentioned in the itinerary.
• All sightseeing tours in Cairo are private tours.
• Entrance fees to all sites as indicated on the itinerary.
• Lunch during your trip in Cairo.
• Meals as mention in the above itinerary.
• Bottled water during the trips.
• Portage when needed.
• All service charges and taxes.
• 30 minutes of local calling (5 minutes international) and a mobile phone loaned for the length of your stay or an Egyptian sim card for your unlocked mobile device.
Excluded:
• Tipping.